Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
92
/100
Reviews
19
professional
Vintages
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2004
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92/100
Nebbiolo
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Community Reviews
2525
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92.1
Avg Score
95
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Taster #5325
· Sep 19, 2025
Found another bottle on sale online and I grabbed it. Still a beauty. So fragrant, perfumed, delicate, fine. Though it still has some tannins that will carry it for a few more years yet, treating this delicately in terms of air and food pairing will yield the most reward.
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Taster #1727
· Mar 30, 2025
93/100
Really shines with a little air.
2004 vintage
Taster #8736
· Dec 10, 2023
92/100
From magnum. Medium ruby in color. Nose is red fruited, some raw cedar, raspberry, forest floor and floral notes. Medium bodied, packed with flavor and a bit spicy. Tannins are still chewy. Acid is medium plus. Finish is dry and longer than average. This can age longer in this format. Enjoyable but it can use a few years in the cellar to polish some edges.
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Taster #0719
· Oct 18, 2023
Early in its window, with engaging aromatics, minty and floral. Enough fruit to thoroughly charm up front, with cool mentholated notes, but there’s still lots of gritty tannin on the back end that needs to resolve for my liking. Revisit in 5 years. 92+ pts… Day 2, even better, great intensity, penetrating grip and flavor, more flashy than nuanced, but hard to resist as is.
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Taster #3247
· Sep 20, 2023
PnP, stunning. Heavily perfumed nose, well-balanced med>med+ body, with sweet, round tannins, avg++ complexity, and a long, elegant finish. This is in such a sweet spot just now that if you have several, it's really an ideal time to open one. If this bottle was representative, this has another decade of superb drinking yet ahead. Such a joy. RIP Renato. highly recommended https://www.ItalianWine.blog
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Taster #6329
· May 18, 2023
92/100
Cantina del Pino Barbaresco Ovello 2004. Blir bare bedre og bedre med tid i glasset. Tørkede blomster, krydder og Swix sitrusrens. Det utgjør en fin parfyme. Smooth i anslaget. Moden deilig frukt med en nedslipt struktur. Deilig å drikke nå, men heller ikke noe problem å lagre videre. Presis lang finish med delvis oppløste tanniner. Fine med litt trøkk i seg fortsatt. Skikkelig digg vin. 92p+
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Taster #7229
· Jan 13, 2023
94/100
Drinking nicely per "spendergast" note 12/7/22. My bottle showed notable tannin, though the wine is perfectly balanced. Recommend 2-4 hour decant. Very nice with beef bolognese.
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Taster #5395
· Dec 7, 2022
94/100
Decanted 90 minutes and paired with venison osso buco. Sadly, my last bottle. Dark ripe fruit, cassis, herbal notes, with well integrated tannins and long finish. Still drinking very well.
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Taster #5325
· Aug 28, 2021
I popped this open on a bit of a whim to enjoy with dinner (chestnut and wild mushroom pasta with Pecorino- a wonderful pairing). I wrote a tasting note (to follow below), but then looked up the wine just to find out more information and was saddened to learn that the winemaker Renato Vacca passed away last year. I actually met him once here in Connecticut! Somehow, my local shop arranged for him to host an in store tasting and …
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Taster #7740
· May 19, 2020
90/100
Seemed boring and lacked some excitement. Showing some development but still fresh fruit.
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Taster #9843
· Mar 18, 2020
92/100
Wonderful bold wine, decanted 2 hours. It has softened in the mouth, full but velvety experience, this was great
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Taster #6001
· Sep 18, 2018
Wow, what a gorgeous nose! Somehow it captures one of the best aspects of a freshly-released Barbaresco or Barolo after a good vintage - violets and rose petals galore! Normally I only get this fresh upon release (and particularly of the 2004 vintage, where it was overwhelming). Such a gorgeous nose - red fruits over the perfectly perfumed florals. The palate is still mostly acidic, strongly so, so the structure is still there. It's got a bit of weight to …
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Taster #5596
· Aug 19, 2018
93/100
Amazing HUGE bouquet. Flavorful and long finish. Tannins prominent right after opening. Mellowed in 30 minutes.
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Taster #8904
· Apr 26, 2018
95/100
Decanted off of medium sediment. Medium deep red with heavy bricking. Explosive aromas of sappy dark fruits overlaid with intensely mentholated bruised rosemary and a beautiful suggestion of roses. Wow! Big and forceful palate comes on strong with camphor, fresh herbs, powerful dark fruits and an earthy inflection. Exceptional balance and length. This is a great Barbaresco that is in peak form where it will hold through 2020 - in a perfect place right now. Bravo!
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Taster #8553
· Nov 24, 2017
91/100
Beautiful nose upon opening. Flavors not far behind but the sweet rose petal are eventually replaced with a bit of a tannic and acidic bite. For the first half hour, though, a real beauty. I suggest serving to a group so everyone gets the first stages in the glass. Sure to please.
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Taster #7490
· Jul 22, 2017
93/100
Beautiful, heady aromas of damp earth, plum, and rose petals. Exotic and heady on the palate, a really nice Barbaresco. Consensus score was 92.
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Taster #2037
· Jul 21, 2017
91/100
Dried red/dark fruits, spices, earthy/mushroom element, long finish. Still in its peak but window is closing, no need to wait. Can't imagine this can last until 2022.
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Taster #0905
· Apr 30, 2017
91/100
Like a fighter approaching the end of their career but still with a good knockout punch, this wine is on the way down but still gives a lot of pleasure. Garnet with brown tinges, some watery bricking at the edges, pretty nose of ripe fruit, plum/prune and a touch of musk. Flavors are soft and fruity with some nice fruit left but the whole package says Drink Me Now.
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Taster #3030
· Mar 26, 2017
Still a bit tight and young. Nice; full and complete but too tannic for this old teletubby's taste, maybe it was the food. Greenblanket is receiving mixed signals from his ambient cellar. Two reds this weekend are tighter than expected but two recent whites (a middle aged vouvray and an older auslese looked like disturbing urine samples when poured.
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Taster #0905
· May 22, 2016
90/100
Pleasant, medium bodied with cooler flavor profile that many barbarescos. More elegant than flavorful. A slight bit lacking in flavor for my taste.
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Taster #5180
· Sep 19, 2015
93/100
Still youthful. Spices and some tar on a nice nose, dark cherry fruit with more spice on a savory palate. Good depth, excellent balance. Tannins still a bit drying, good acidity, has a lot of time left and could have a big upside with more age.
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Taster #7740
· Sep 16, 2015
92/100
Light and elegant flavors but the fruit is quite dark. Overall, the wine is nice and enjoyable but it does seem to lack some edges or something to make it more interesting.
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Taster #2037
· Jul 26, 2014
91/100
red/dark fruits, coffee, smooth & elegant. juicy acidity.
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Taster #7488
· Apr 3, 2014
91/100
10 year mark.. 5 years since i last checked in.. Tannins have integrated well. smooth and balanced. Floral red fruit.. beautiful.. in love with nebbiolos these days..
2004 vintage
Taster #7568
· Mar 16, 2014
92/100
Robert Parker Grand World Tour, Piedmont Masterclass (Singapore) : Medium garnet. Nose of licorice, strawberry, tar and rosemary, quite clean and precise. On the palate very grippy, loads of tannins not drying but conspicuously masculine, take no prisoner style. Make sure you eat with this wine and make sure your dish is of the fatty/oily kind. Other than that, solid complexity and length
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